Sir Thomas BrowneMacmillan, 1905 - 214 páginas |
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... Pedigree of Sir Thomas Browne in a privately printed pamphlet which he has courteously sent me . This seems to reach the limit of attainable knowledge . A married into good Cheshire families . It is vaguely stated CONTENTS CHAPTER.
... Pedigree of Sir Thomas Browne in a privately printed pamphlet which he has courteously sent me . This seems to reach the limit of attainable knowledge . A married into good Cheshire families . It is vaguely stated CONTENTS CHAPTER.
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... knowledge of the human body . There had been a reaction against the general Calvinism of an earlier time ; but in 1629 , the year before Browne's arrival , the laxity of faith persisting among the Mont- pellier students had led the ...
... knowledge of the human body . There had been a reaction against the general Calvinism of an earlier time ; but in 1629 , the year before Browne's arrival , the laxity of faith persisting among the Mont- pellier students had led the ...
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... knowledge , will revert to a consideration of the supernatural , but in a mood how changed ! He knows that his faith has passed through a fiery trial ; " my greener studies have been polluted , " he confesses , with heresies and errors ...
... knowledge , will revert to a consideration of the supernatural , but in a mood how changed ! He knows that his faith has passed through a fiery trial ; " my greener studies have been polluted , " he confesses , with heresies and errors ...
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... knowledge , which the patient labour of man is for ever making more full and more exact . Neither the one nor the other allowed science to interfere in the slightest degree with the domain of faith or with the dogmatism of moral ideas ...
... knowledge , which the patient labour of man is for ever making more full and more exact . Neither the one nor the other allowed science to interfere in the slightest degree with the domain of faith or with the dogmatism of moral ideas ...
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... knowledge . He regarded all attempts at increasing the stores of human equip- ment as so many futile acts of encouragement given to man's " dignity " and " greatness , " whereas all knowledge should begin with the acceptance of the fact ...
... knowledge . He regarded all attempts at increasing the stores of human equip- ment as so many futile acts of encouragement given to man's " dignity " and " greatness , " whereas all knowledge should begin with the acceptance of the fact ...
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A. C. BENSON admirable ancient animal antiquary Arthur Dee author of Religio basilisks beauty believe body Browne's Christian Morals Church Coleridge contemporaries course criticism curious death delight disciples divine doctor doubt edition Edward Browne English Evelyn evidence experience extraordinary eyes fact famous fancy father Garden of Cyrus genius Gillingham Guy Patin hath heaven Iceland imagination intellectual interest knowledge language Latin learned letters Leyden London Lord manuscript ment mind Montpellier mysterious naturalist nature never noble Norfolk Norwich observation Oxford Padua Paracelsus Patin perhaps philosopher physical physician plants posthumous published quincuncial quincunx reader Religio Medici Royal Society scientific seems seventeenth century Sir Kenelm Digby Sir Thomas Browne soul speaks spirit style temper Tenison things Thomas Tenison thought tion took treatise truth unto Urn-Burial urns Vulgar Errors whole words writings written
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Página 197 - Laws found the folly of prodigal blazes, and reduced undoing fires, unto the rule of sober obsequies, wherein few could be so mean as not to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, and an Urne.
Página 119 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
Página 120 - ... tis all one to lie in St. Innocent's churchyard, as in the sands of Egypt: ready to be anything, in the ecstasy of being ever, and as content with six foot as the moles of Adrianus.
Página 179 - Pitiful things are only to be found in the cottages of such breasts ; but bright thoughts, clear deeds, constancy, fidelity, bounty, and generous honesty are the gems of noble minds ; wherein, to derogate from none, the true heroic English gentleman hath no peer.
Página 48 - I do embrace it: for even that vulgar and Tavern-Music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the First Composer. There is something in it of Divinity more than the ear discovers: it is an Hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole World, and creatures of GOD; such a melody to the ear, as the whole World, well understood, would afford the understanding. In brief, it is a sensible fit of that harmony which intellectually...
Página 119 - Atropos unto the immortality of their names, were never danipt with the necessity of oblivion. Even old ambitions had the advantage of ours, in the attempts of their vainglories, who acting early, and before the probable meridian...
Página 42 - I believe that our estranged and divided ashes shall unite again ; that our separated dust after so many pilgrimages and transformations into the parts of minerals, plants, animals, elements, shall at the voice of God return into their primitive shapes, and join again to make up their primary and predestinate forms.
Página 35 - I could never content my contemplation with those general pieces of wonder, the Flux and Reflux of the Sea, the increase of Nile, the conversion of the Needle to the North...
Página 29 - I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent my self.
Página 179 - Let thy studies be free as thy thoughts and contemplations : but fly not only upon the wings of imagination ; join sense unto reason, and experiment unto speculation, and so give life unto embryon truths, and verities yet in their chaos.